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What the Pope Said to Protestants
Numbers 11:24-30
Intro: God always spoke to the people outside the camp, away from their everyday chores. While there the leadership was filled with God's Spirit. Two leaders did not make the con­clave for reasons left to the imagination. They too were filled with God's Spirit. It cannot be, the seventy protested. It isn't done that way. Moses said, "Let it be that the whole
camp be visited by God's Spirit."
For the first time in 445 years the Roman Catholic Church went outside the camp of Roman Cardinals to choose a Polish Pope. When the Archbishop of Krakow became Pope he said, "I will
speak to the people." So he has, nations have heard him ques­tion
the frequent unjust distribution of goods and the struc­tured reasons which foster poverty in the world. He admonished his hearers to follow a simple way of life, to be considerate of illegal aliens, and condemned regimes that use torture and oppression. Pope John Paul II is socially progressive.
During the German occupation of Poland he worked in a stone quarry. The pain and misery of the times were written upon the faces of the people with whom he worked. "Keep the Poles at a low level of labor" was the motto of Hans Frank, Hitler's henchman.
He took risks in the 40's. Jewish families were smuggled out of their ghetto to find a place of safety in his home. Person­al crisis came to him when he was hit by a tram which left him with a fractured skull. A few months later he was nearly crushed to death by a truck which is the reason he walks stooped today. Following these experiences he felt nudgings toward the priesthood. By the end of the war he was well on his way to the priesthood, taking his studies in Rome and be­coming a scholar. The bloody results of Nazism had scored the deaths of 6.3 million Poles, one-fourth of the Polish popu­lation. In 1948 when he returned home he found a new threat, a new enemy.
Today he is the most travelled Pope in history. For a Pole to visit the White House demonstrates how far we have come in our thinking. He is a man sensitive to destiny, communicating love in words and gestures. His strong face, kind eyes, and rugged but gentle hands give one the image of the Catcher in the Rye who would save the world by wrapping his arms around people. What did he say? To Protestants? Some things to think about.

What the Pope Said to Protestants
Numbers 11:24-30
Intro: God always spoke to the people outside the camp, away from their everyday chores. While there the leadership was filled with God's Spirit. Two leaders did not make the con­clave for reasons left to the imagination. They too were filled with God's Spirit. It cannot be, the seventy protested. It isn't done that way. Moses said, "Let it be that the whole
camp be visited by God's Spirit."
For the first time in 445 years the Roman Catholic Church went outside the camp of Roman Cardinals to choose a Polish Pope. When the Archbishop of Krakow became Pope he said, "I will
speak to the people." So he has, nations have heard him ques­tion
the frequent unjust distribution of goods and the struc­tured reasons which foster poverty in the world. He admonished his hearers to follow a simple way of life, to be considerate of illegal aliens, and condemned regimes that use torture and oppression. Pope John Paul II is socially progressive.
During the German occupation of Poland he worked in a stone quarry. The pain and misery of the times were written upon the faces of the people with whom he worked. "Keep the Poles at a low level of labor" was the motto of Hans Frank, Hitler's henchman.
He took risks in the 40's. Jewish families were smuggled out of their ghetto to find a place of safety in his home. Person­al crisis came to him when he was hit by a tram which left him with a fractured skull. A few months later he was nearly crushed to death by a truck which is the reason he walks stooped today. Following these experiences he felt nudgings toward the priesthood. By the end of the war he was well on his way to the priesthood, taking his studies in Rome and be­coming a scholar. The bloody results of Nazism had scored the deaths of 6.3 million Poles, one-fourth of the Polish popu­lation. In 1948 when he returned home he found a new threat, a new enemy.
Today he is the most travelled Pope in history. For a Pole to visit the White House demonstrates how far we have come in our thinking. He is a man sensitive to destiny, communicating love in words and gestures. His strong face, kind eyes, and rugged but gentle hands give one the image of the Catcher in the Rye who would save the world by wrapping his arms around people. What did he say? To Protestants? Some things to think about.